SRA Eric Ruiter, a security policeman from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii demonstrates a little American culture for Kurdish children with some "low fives." The children, airlifted from Turkey, were part of Operation Pacific Haven, a U.S. State Department-directed action aimed at evacuating Kurds and other Iraqi opposition groups from the Middle East country's turmoil. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine June 1977
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PACIFIC HAVEN
Base: Andersen Air Base
State: Guam (GU)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT. John Mcdowell
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/06/1997
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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